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How to remove Windows paths from WSL path.md

[Requires WSL Build 17093 or above]

You can override WSL's settings by editing /etc/wsl.conf in the WSL filesystem. (Normally, this file doesn't exist at first.)

$ sudo vi /etc/wsl.conf

[interop]
appendWindowsPath = false

For the new WSL settings to take effect, you should shut down and then restart WSL - from Windows:

c:\Users\you> wsl --shutdown

Now check your path inside WSL:

$ echo $PATH

See also:

Default wsl.conf settings:

[automount]
enabled = true
mountFsTab = true
root = "/mnt/"
options =

[network]
generateHosts = true
generateResolvConf = true

[interop]
enabled = true
appendWindowsPath = true
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